Nick Cunningham

World Cinema Jury Prize to ‘Flee’, Directing Award to Hogir Hirori for ‘Sabaya’, Documentary Special Jury Award in Impact for Change to ‘Writing With Fire’, while Special Jury Award in Verite Filmmaking to ‘President’, directed by Camilla Nielsson

The DocCelerator programme is expanding its online remit with three further mentored workshops covering pitch, enhanced visuals and rough cut. “Filmmakers are looking for [further] ways of strengthening the dramatic elements of their story and optimize their filmic expression,” says Paradiddle Pictures’ Ove Rishøj Jensen.

Greek doc fest sets application deadline of Feb 12 for podcast workshops, with global experts focussing on the basic principles of the form and content creation (plus secrets and know-how). Podcasts then given centre stage during Thessaloniki June/July 2021.

Doc/Fest announces the curatorial teams behind its 2021 Film, Arts and Exchange programmes for the upcoming 28th edition (4-13 June), which will be delivered as a hybrid event, in Sheffield and online.

A new report has called for root and branch transformation of the UK documentary film industry, setting out detailed plans to reverse its funding crisis, address structural inequality and re-balance the relationship between production, distribution and exhibition.

Dutch producer Corine Meijers, formerly of Submarine Channel and now MD of Utrecht-based Studio Biarritz, is a participant at Rotterdam Lab 2021 where she will be both honing her production skills and promoting her impressive slate of documentary, immersive and interactive projects.

The Doclisboa ‘Archives of the Time Being’ programme, scheduled for presentation in theatres 4 -10 February has been postponed. It was to be the fifth of six festival ‘moments’ within the festival’s reconfigured 2020/21 edition.

“Anarchist, libertarian and rebel.” European Film Academy Chairman Mike Downey pays tribute to Italian filmmaker Cecilia Mangini who died on January 21 2021.

Created by Henrik Friis of Copenhagen-based HF Productions, the platform will feature international, award-winning arthouse content “that inspires social change.” FILMPIXS will also serve as a platform for festivals showcasing virtual public screenings.

Set in a Barcelona hospital at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the three-part doc series, produced by Spanish outfits El Terrat and Forest Film Studios, will debut across all HBO Europe territories.